Slavery was America’s largest industry in the decades leading up to the Civil War.The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University exists to help Amer
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The revelation last year that Georgetown University had, in 1838, sold 272 slaves owned by the school in order to pay off debts reignited a conversation about how America and its old, elite institutio
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In 1989 on his first visit to the United States, Senegalese historian Dr Ibrahima Seck heard a Mississippi bluesman perform.“What I was hearing was so familiar,” says Seck of that mini concert b
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Most visitors easily recognize Washington, D.C., landmarks such as the U.S. Capitol or the White House. However, many might not know these and other iconic structures in the nation’s capital wer
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